Quince Liqueur

It’s my favorite time of year: quince time! I’m starting with about 25 lbs this year. Should be enough to make everything on my list: Jelly Vinegar Liqueur Poached Stuffing for Thanksgiving A friend of mine has a speakeasy party every December where many attendees bring their homemade hooches to share. I always bring quince, [...]

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Quince Jelly, two ways

Before I started back on SCD again, I made my usual round of quince jelly. One minor health crisis later, and now I’ve made quince jelly using honey instead of sugar, which is SCD-compliant. Here is the recipe, with instructions for both sugar and honey versions: Quince Jelly 4 c quince juice (you’ll get this [...]

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Quince Vinegar

Here’s Barbara Ghazarian’s recipe for quince vinegar. She was kind enough to let me reprint this from her amazing quince cookbook, Simply Quince. I met her last year at the local fruit show. Her book is completely awesome. This is my second year making quince vinegar. It’s easy and delicious, especially on late summer tomatoes [...]

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Quince Kugel

I didn’t know what a kugel was. I’d always heard of them, but never had one. Therefore, I had nothing to judge this against, so, I felt it turned out pretty good. Now that I’m reading up a little online about what a kugel actually is, I’m thinking I can continue to tweak this recipe, [...]

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The Quinces Are Here!

Wooooo! Bit of a tradition around here, getting the quinces. Here are some pics. I’ve already made two batches of quince hooch and I’m working on some vinegar as we speak (recipe coming soon). The hooch on the right is darker because I added the grated quince to an empty jar. That gave the quince [...]

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Happy New Year!

And I say good riddance to 2009 as well. Here’s what I’ll be doing tonight: My sister is a fellow homemade hoochaholic. Over the holiday we swapped, so now I have–in order of preference: strawberry (hers), quince (mine), pomegranate (hers), and apricot (mine). Yum! And a belated Merry Christmas to all from Mr. Pickle!

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Thanksgiving Menu Planner

We will be hosting our vegan pal RCMB again for Thanksgiving this year, as well as another friend who has some food restrictions. Between the three of us, it should be quite a challenge. But, I’m up for it! I was looking at last year’s menu and recalling what I liked and what I didn’t. [...]

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Get Some New Material!

My apologies, dear readers. I have been out of town visiting family and eating hard. Here are some of the best things I ate/drank over the holidays: My sister’s homemade pomegranate liqueur (hopefully she’ll be sending me the recipe very soon) A mango mojito at The Owl Tree in San Francisco My mom’s rocky road [...]

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Holiday Cocktails

I need a drink! Dear readers, my apologies for the neglect. This time of year is just so chaotic, it’s ridiculous. Remember way back in another galaxy when I made that quince moonshine? Well, I also made some apple moonshine, aka calvados from a big bushel of apples The Man brought home from the farm [...]

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My New Blavatar: Quince

WordPress has a groovy new feature: the blavatar/favicon. I posted mine today. In case you can’t tell what it is, it’s a quince, of course. And I’m very excited about it! Also, they have this new snow feature. So look forward to it snowing on my blog throughout December. Next I need some gingerbread xmas [...]

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